Constance Bumgarner Gee

Constance Bumgarner Gee
Born	Raleigh, North Carolina
Residence	Westport, Massachusetts
Education	East Carolina University Pratt Institute Pennsylvania State University
Occupation	Scholar, memoirist, philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Gordon Gee (divorced)

Constance Bumgarner Gee is an American scholar, memoirist, and advocate of the medical use of cannabis. She was the Founder and Director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at Ohio State University, and later an Assistant Professor at Brown University and tenured Associate Professor Vanderbilt University.

Constance Bumgarner was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts. She then received a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in New York City. She received a PhD in Arts Education Policy from Pennsylvania State University in 1993.

She was the Founder and Director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 1993 to 1997. She was Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1998 to 2000. She later became a tenured Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education in the Department of Leadership and Organizations at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She resigned in 2010.

She was the executive editor of the Arts Education Policy Review, a peer-reviewed academic journal, from 1997 to 2010. She also published chapters in scholarly volumes about arts education policy. According to academic Judith Smith Koroscik, one of her scholarly contributions is to ask "not why the public fails to understand, but rather, What does the public understand about the arts."

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